Sp(2) / U(1) and a positive curvature problem

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2015.08.002MaRDI QIDQ745031zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ming Xu, Joseph A. Wolf

Publication date 12 October 2015

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02755

zbMATH Keywords

positively curved for commuting pairsRiemannian homogeneous spacesectional curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis on real and complex Lie groups (22E30) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

Abstract: A compact Riemannian homogeneous space $G/H$, with a bi--invariant orthogonal decomposition $mathfrakg=mathfrakh+mathfrakm$ is called positively curved for commuting pairs, if the sectional curvature vanishes for any tangent plane in $T_{eH}(G/H)$ spanned by a linearly independent commuting pair in $mathfrakm$. In this paper,we will prove that on the coset space $mathrmSp(2)/mathrmU(1)$, in which $mathrmU(1)$ corresponds to a short root, admits positively curved metrics for commuting pairs. B. Wilking recently proved that this $mathrmSp(2)/mathrmU(1)$ can not be positively curved in the general sense. This is the first example to distinguish the set of compact coset spaces admitting positively curved metrics, and that for metrics positively curved only for commuting pairs.

Review text

A compact Riemannian homogeneous space \(G/H\), with a bi-invariant orthogonal decomposition \(\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{h}+\mathfrak{m}\) is called positively curved for commuting pairs, if the sectional curvature vanishes for any tangent plane in \(T_{eH}(G/H)\) spanned by a linearly independent commuting pair in \(\mathfrak{m}\). The authors prove that the coset space \(\mathrm{Sp}(2) / \mathrm{U}(1)\), in which \(\mathrm U(1)\) corresponds to a short root, admits positively curved metrics for commuting pairs. This coset space was in the list of \textit{L. Bérard Bergery}'s classification of odd-dimensional positively curved Riemannian homogeneous spaces [J. Math. Pures Appl. (9) 55, 47--68 (1976; Zbl 0289.53037)], but B. Wilking recently proved that \(\mathrm{Sp}(2) / \mathrm{U}(1)\) cannot be positively curved in the general sense. His unpublished result and his proof are given in Theorem 5.1 of the present paper. Therefore, this is the first example distinguishing the set of compact coset spaces admitting positively curved metrics, from that for metrics positively curved only for commuting pairs.

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